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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Delay \De*lay"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Delayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Delaying}.] [OF. deleer, delaier, fr. the noun d['e]lai, or directly fr. L. dilatare to enlarge, dilate, in LL., to put off. See {Delay}, noun, and cf. {Delate}, 1st {Defer}, {Dilate}.]
1. To put off; to defer; to procrastinate; to prolong the time of or before.
My lord delayeth his coming. --Matt. xxiv. 48.
2. To retard; to stop, detain, or hinder, for a time; to retard the motion, or time of arrival, of; as, the mail is delayed by a heavy fall of snow.
Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. --Milton.
3. To allay; to temper. [Obs.]
The watery showers delay the raging wind. --Surrey.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
delayed
adjective
1: caused to be slower or later; "the delayed plane finally arrived" [ant: {expedited}]
2: not as far along as normal in development
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "delayed": arrested, back, backward, behind, behindhand, belated, blocked, checked, delayed-action, detained, held up, hung up, impeded, in a bind, in abeyance, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstructed, overdue, retarded, set back, slow, slowed down, stopped, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely
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